All Health Service Journal articles in February 2023 – Page 2
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News
Battle for cancer centre turns in favour of challenger
A controversial transfer of children’s cancer services has moved a step closer after an NHS England assessment process supported the move.
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News
‘Territorial’ foundation trusts must be scrapped, says Hewitt review member
Foundation trusts must be scrapped to truly change the culture and behaviours within local systems, says an FT chair who is working on a government-commissioned review of integrated care systems.
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Daily Insight
The Primer: Rays of hope
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: All change for maternity transformation
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.
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News
Boris office chief made DHSC director
Former senior Downing Street official Samantha Jones is to become a non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social Care, HSJ has learned.
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Daily Insight
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Balancing acts, dentistry gaps and EPR setback
Your essential update on health for the week.
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News
Cost of new hospital now triple funding allocation says CEO
The chief executive of a trust waiting for a new hospital said the cost of the project is now likely to be triple the allocation that was announced by the government.
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Comment
Trans people deserve better end of life care
Jonathan Ellis describes how simple and practical changes by providers, NHS bodies and regulators can ensure that end-of-life care is inclusive for all.
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News
Dates for three-day junior doctors strike announced
Thousands of junior doctors will walk out from 13 March until the morning of 16 March, the British Medical Association has announced.
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HSJ Local
More prosecutions launched over patient deaths at trust
A scandal-hit mental health trust is facing further prosecutions over alleged care failings relating to the deaths of two inpatients, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Trust staves off break-up calls after CQC upgrade
A troubled trust has most likely secured a reprieve from being broken up after the Care Quality Commission upgraded its rating, but its leaders accept they still have a ‘long way to go’.
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News
Outstanding trust handed warning notice
An ‘outstanding’ rated acute trust has been served a warning notice to make ‘significant and immediate improvements’ to the quality of care to people with mental health needs and learning disabilities.
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Comment
How to write the perfect ICS strategy
To lose one strategy is unfortunate, to lose seven looks like carelessness. Julian Patterson reports
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Daily Insight
Daily Insight: Going nowhere fast
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: It has to be better than before
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, this week by HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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News
Nine groups charged with ‘acceleration’ of provider collaboratives by NHSE
NHS England has chosen nine provider collaboratives to take the lead in ‘accelerating’ the development of the approach across the service.
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Comment
Government and NHSE need to start listening to patients
Dr Henrietta Hughes sheds light on the disconnect between the executive corridor and what patients experience.
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News
Two trusts reverse £20m contract award after court challenge
Two acutes have reversed a decision to award a £20m contract for patient transport services shortly after an unsuccessful bidder started legal action.
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News
‘Local management’ harder in ‘enormous’ trusts, says new NHS Providers chief
The new chief executive of NHS Providers has told HSJ he will champion the development of provider collaboratives in the role, and stressed there is no ‘schism’ between them and integrated care systems.
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News
Trust ‘missed opportunities’ to prevent sex offender working as locum
A trust has admitted it ‘missed opportunities’ to identify that a locum doctor – who was arrested on hospital premises for two sexual offences — had already been cautioned for indecent exposure.